FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Statistical learning applied to computer-assisted fish age and growth estimation from otolith images BT AF FABLET, Ronan AS 1:1; FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCB-STH-LASAA; C1 IFREMER, LASAA, F-29280 Plouzane, France. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-DOP-DCB-STH-LASAA IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 IF 1.216 TC 5 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-2136.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Computer assisted fish age and growth analysis;Otolith image analysis;Otolith interpretation;Statistical learning AB Computer-assisted tools need to be developed to help in the accurate and efficient acquisition of fish age and growth data for ecological and assessment issues. Stating fish age and growth analysis as pattern classification issues, the proposed approach relies on a statistical learning strategy. Given otolith images interpreted by an expert, probabilistic kernel-based methods (namely Kernel Logistic Regression) are used to infer interpretation rules. More precisely, two different probabilistic models are introduced: one to infer fish age from otolith images and a second one aiming at evaluating whether or not a given otolith growth pattern is realistic w.r.t. training examples. These probabilistic models provide us with the basis for coping with three different issues: the automated estimation of fish age from otolith images, the estimation of individual otolith growth patterns, and the definition of a confidence measure of otolith interpretations. These computer-assisted ageing tools are validated for a dataset of plaice otoliths. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All fights reserved. PY 2006 PD NOV SO Fisheries Research SN 0165-7836 PU Elsevier VL 81 IS 2-3 UT 000241425000013 BP 219 EP 228 DI 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.07.013 ID 2136 ER EF